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Three German Courts of Appeal have held that the distribution of used software is only permitted if the copyright holder consents or if the software is distributed in the same physical form (i.e. on the media) in which it was initially put on the market

The German Federal Court of Justice decided in its ruling of April 30, 2009, that the creator of a database can forbid third parties from detecting database modifications by means of data synchronization and from using them for a competitive product (file no. I ZR 19105

During the legislative proceedings for the Second Act on Copyright Law in the Information Society the so-called "Second Basket" which has been in force since January 1, 2008, many interest groups and lobbyists insisted that the legislator should timely attend to the preparation of a "Third Basket"

In two landmark judgments of 6 December 2007 and 30 January 2008, the German Federal Supreme Court (“FSC“) has ruled that the so called “reprographic copyright levy“ implemented by the German legislator to compensate for licence-free copying made with traditional photocopiers does not apply to single function printers

This month the German Collecting Society "ZPÜ" sent a written claim to the German IT Industry Association "BITKOM" requesting that the copyright levy applicable to conventional audio recorders and MP3 players should also be applied to all other devices that include MP3 players or other audio recording functions, such as mobile phones